Fishes of the JV ester ft North Atlantic 251 



U. S.); Babkin and Komarov, Contr. Canad. Biol., 7 (1-7), 1931 : 13 (gastric juice, St. Andrews, New 

 Brunswick); Huntsman, Contr. Canad. Biol., 7 (1-7), 1931 : 4 (physiol., St. Andrews, New Brunswick); 

 MacKay, Contr. Canad. Biol., 7 (1-7), 1931 : 19 (physiol.); Smith, H. W., Amer. J. Physiol., ()8, 1931 : 

 279—295 (excretion); Breder, Copeia, 1932: 31 (season, nos.. Block Island); Anon., Rep. Newfound- 

 land Fish. Res. Lab. (1931), 1932: 107 (listed, SW. side of Grand Bank); Dawson, Biol. Bull. Woods 

 Hole, 64, 1933"- 33 (blood); Nichols, Contr. Canad. Biol., 7, 1933: 34, 449 (physiol.); Anon., Rep. 

 Newfoundland Fish. Res. Lab. (1932), 1933: 125 (depth, temp., sal., Newfoundland and Nova Scotian 

 Banks); Bigclow and Schroeder, Canad. Atlant. Fauna, I2e, 1934: 21, 22 (descr., ill., range); Anon., 

 Rep. Newfoundland Fish. Res. Lab. (1934), 1935: 77 (Banquereau, off Nova Scotia); Vladykov and 

 McKenzie, Proc. N. S. Inst. Sci., 79, 1935: 51 (Nova Scotia); Bigelow and Schroeder, Bull. U. S. Bur. 

 Fish., 48, 1936: 324 (cf. R. erinacea, nos., Georges Bank); Smith, H. W., Biol. Rev. (Cambridge), J7, 

 1936: 67 (blood serum); Vladykov, Nat. canad., 6j, 1936: 217 (descr., photos, season, egg cases. Nova 

 Scotia, cf. other species); Nichols and Breder, Copeia, 1937: 182 (egg cases, cf. other species); Breder, 

 Bull. N. Y. zool. Soc, 41, 1938: 28 (listed. New York Harbor); Merriman and Warfel, Trans. 9th 

 N. Amer. Wildl. Conf, 1944: 234 (nos.. Long Island Sound); Bull. Bingham oceanogr. Coll., 11 (4), 

 1948: 134 (listed, off Rhode Island and Conn.). 



Raja ocellata (in part) Dumeril, Hist. Nat. Poiss., J, 1865: 539 (descr., but R. eglanteria perhaps included). 



Rata diaphanes (in part) Lyman, 6th Rep. Mass. Comm. inl. Fish., 1872: 54 {R. ocellata probably included, 

 because abundant April and May, south. Mass.). 



Raja ocellata var. ocellata Garman, Proc. Boston Soc. nat. Hist., 77, 1874: 177 (descr., size, Mass.). 



Raja ocellata var. diaphana Garman, Proc. Boston Soc. nat. Hist., ly, 1874: 177 (color variety). 



Big Skate, Wilson, Bull. U. S. nat. Mus., 158, 1932: 403 (copepod parasite). 



Raia scabrata Garman, Mem. Harv. Mus. comp. Zool., j6, 1913: pi. 21, fig. I (ill., mislabelled).^"^ 



Probable Sj'nonyms : 



Raia batis Wyman, Mem. Amer. Acad. Arts Sci., N. S. 9, 1864: 39, i pi. (descr., ill., egg cases, embryos and 

 newly hatched); Ann. Mag. nat. Hist., (3) 14, 1864: 399 (abstr. of Wyman, 1864); Amer. J. Sci., (2) 

 j5, 1864: 29 (abstr. of Wyman, 1864); Proc. Boston Soc. nat. Hist., 9, 1865: 334 (abstr. of Wyman, 

 1864); Putnam, Amer. Nat., J, 1869: 621 (after Wyman, 1864). 



Raja laevis Seal, Aquarium, N. Y., 2 (10), 1914: 105 (female with eggs. Woods Hole, winter, probably R. ocel- 

 lata because of small size, see p. 249, footnote 97; not seen). 



Doubtful References: 



Raia diaphanes Storer, Mem. Amer. Acad. Arts Sci., N. S. 2, 1846: 510 (doubtful whether R. ocellata or R. 



eglanteria). 

 Not Raja batis Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., z, 1758: 231 (E. Atlant.). 

 Not Raja ocellata, capite magna . . . Russell, Fish. Coromandel, r, 1 803 : 5, pi. 8 (a Sting Ray of the genus Jeto- 



batus). 

 Not Raja diaphanes Mitchill, Trans. Lit. philos. Soc. N. Y., j, 181 5: 478 (equals R. eglanteria Bosc 1802; 



see p. 187); Ayers, Boston J. nat. Hist., 4, 1843: 289, pi. 12, fig. 2 (season, near New York, ill. appears 



to be R. eglanteria, see p. 176). 

 Not Raia batis Storer, Rep. Fish. Rept. Birds Mass., 1839: 193 (equals R. laevis Mitchill 1817). 

 Not Raia ocellata DeKay, Zool. N. Y., 4, 1842: 369, pi. 65, fig. 212 (descr., ill., equals R. eglanteria Bosc 



1802, see p. 176). 



Raja olseni Bigelow and Schroeder 1951 



Figure 54 a 



Study Material. Immature male, 280 mm long, type, from the Gulf of Mexico, 

 Lat. 27°25' N, Long. 96° 13' W, 76 fathoms, Oregon St. 157, in U. S. National Mu- 



106. This illustration was actually of a specimen of R. ocellata in the collection of the Harvard Museum of Comparative 

 Zoology which we have examined. 



